The floating cake comes from Chinese Cake, it however, is eaten when cooled and the other uses when being still hot. That makes Cool Food Festival on 3rd March special. Most foreigners are all curious about the odd name. It actually comes about from the way it is cooked. On “Tet Han Thuc” day, all family members even working away from home will get a union to make “ Banh Troi” and “ Banh Chay” together. After all have been done, they will put on a tray on an altar to offer ancestor like a way to remember the care of the deceased. Making “Banh Troi” is not difficult for anyone even for unskilled people, you just need to drop Vietnam cooking class to learn how to make.
Ingredients
The first thing you have to do is to prepare compounds.
– Sticky rice flour
– Rice flour
– dark palm sugar balls
– Roasted sesame seeds
– Warm water
You have to immerse rice in water for a few hours before grinding it.
Detail Recipe
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Step 1: you have to bend two kinds of flours together (adding water if dough is dry), continue doing until dough turns smooth.
Step 2: Pinch a little dough and flatten it out then put sugar in the center and roll into a small round ball. You simply do again exactly like that until dough runs out.
Step 3: take a pot with full of water then boil water, simultaneously take a cool water bowl.
Step 4: When the water is boiled, put the small rice ball into, now you just need to wait until the balls float the surface of the pot then take it into a cool water bowl so they will be separated each other.
Step 5: finally you just have to put them on a plate and scatter roasted sesame seeds. Now you already have a floating cake place ready to eat. It’s so simple.
Mentioning “Banh Troi”, most of the Vietnamese all refer the poem of Ho Xuan Huong right now. One special thing is that the name of this poem is “Banh Troi Nuoc” which tells the similarities between the normal floating cakes and the life of a woman in the feudal era. Join Hanoi traditional food, you have a chance to know totally about this and you can understand more women’s life in the feudal period through friendly, professionally speaking english guides.